نرجس فصیحی زاده

Most of the present personality measurement instruments of the country are for judging about the people in clinical contexts and they are not so much applicable in organizational contexts. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate psychometric attributes of DISC Personality Profiler (Carlson Learning Institution, 1994) and Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI, Hogan, Hogan, 1995) and their concurrent criterion validity with Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Myers, Brigs,1962) and HEXACO(Ashton, Lee,2000) in two independent studies. Samples were 230 personnel in the first, and 300 personnel in the second study selected via simple randomized technique from Isfahan Refinery and Distribution of Petroleum Products Company. Data were analyzed with percentile rank, Pearson correlation and confirmatory factor analysis .The results confirm concurrent validity of DISC and HPI. Normalization of two primary personality instruments in organizational environment. These results show that  these instrument can be used in HR significant practices namely personnel selection, classification and effective succession planning.

Regarding the high prevalence of Autistic Spectrum Traits (AST) among people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and simultaneity of anxiety disorders in individual with high level of Autism spectrum traits as well, this study was conducted to investigate the simple and multiple relationships of autistic spectrum traits and obsessive-compulsive disorder among secondary school girl students in Yazd. The population of current research included all of the girl students of secondary school in Yazd. The samples include 250 students who were chosen by multistage random sampling method. Autism spectrum Quotient (AQ) and OCD sub scale of SCL-90. Data were analyzed by multiple regressions. The results indicated that %10 of obsessive-compulsive variance was explained by autistic traits. Attention switching and communication emerged as the strongest predictors of obsessive-compulsive in students. Autism spectrum traits are prevalent in OCD and seem to be associated with the co-morbidities as well as the OCD syndrome itself.

Errors occur commonly in hospitals and nurses are potential observers of these misconducts and they can prevent them by reporting. This research studies the types of errors, misconducts, and inappropriate situations in the nursing field, compares these errors in private and public hospitals and finally studies individuals’ reactions to these errors (whistle-blowing and not whistle-blowing). Two hundred and forty five subjects were chosen out of 2260 nurses in Isfahan hospitals. In this study, a list of errors, misconducts and whistle-blowing criteria by McDonald instrument was used. Results showed that there is significant difference between error models in private and public hospitals, also between strategies used by whistle-blowers and non whistle-blowers when they observed errors, misconduct and inappropriate situations. Sixty-two percent of nurses revealed errors after observing them. Identifying the types of errors can help health decision makers to decrease them and will raise awareness of this issue. In addition, by decreasing the impediments of whistle-blowing, errors and organizational misconducts will be decreased.